Public Laboratories

Our public labs are a chance for playwrights to interact with an audience in a critical stage of development; when a play is ready for feedback and audience exchange. The purpose of the public labs are to stay in process and discovery with an audience. Playwrights and Directors are afforded the opportunity in these labs to: test new ideas and writing, gather feedback from audiences, experiment with audience interaction and design, and experiment with the audience experience. Each lab will differ in its audience interaction and engagement.

Coming up at The Vault:
Reproduktion

By Amy Rutherford
Directed/ Dramaturged by Jonathon Young

Starring:
Katherine Gauthier
Farhang Ghajar
Maggie Huculak
and Rick Roberts

4 public labs only!
August 21, 22, 23 and 24

Flora, desperate to become pregnant, travels to her homeland of Sweden to undergo an alternative fertility treatment that is “guaranteed to reproduce.” As a result of the procedure, a surprising and dangerous transformation occurs, throwing everything she thought she knew about herself and the world into question. By turns funny and moving, Reproduktion examines the ancient imperative to procreate and how to find meaning in our lives when that primal call goes unanswered.

Award-winning playwright Amy Rutherford and director Jonathon Young join forces to create an unforgettable evening in which sounds are recorded and mixed live, reproducing the play's soundscore in real time each night.

AUDIENCE EXPERIENCE: The sound experience will shift and grow nightly as the lab progresses and the creative team makes changes based on audience experience and feedback.

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